We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants from 70 countries. The degree of persistence...

A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ significantly in the extent to which parental economic status...

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...

Four alternative measures of the average duration of unemployment are examined with the intention of illustrating the biases inherent in the average incomplete duration of unemployment, a statistic that is often the only one reported by many statistical agencies; and the robustness of the...

This paper adopts the technique of [DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996). Labour market institutions and the distribution of wages 1973-1992: A semiparametric approach. Econometrica, 64(5), 1001-1044.] to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA reading scores in Canada, and assesses the...

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2004, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty,...

L'article porte sur la robustesse d'une mesure de la duree complete moyenne du chomage au Canada par rapport a diverses hypotheses de calcul. Contrairement a la duree incomplete moyenne du chomage, qui est un indicateur cyclique retarde, cette statistique est un indicateur contemporain du cycle...

Le present document expose une nouvelle methode de mesure de la duree moyenne des periodes de chomage en se fondant sur des donnees recueillies au Canada. Il resume en termes generaux les travaux de Corak (1993) ainsi que de Corak et Heisz (1994) portant sur la periode moyenne complete de...